ACD Lucento (Italy)

Associazione Calcio D Lucento is an amateur football club from the city of Turin in Italy which was formed in 1974 by a group of friends who frequented the Bar Mario on Via Forli.

Franco Riconda was appointed as club President soon after their formation, and it was his foresight to which the club owed so much. He passed away in 1998, with Lucento winning promotion to the Eccellenza, the fifth tier of Italian football shortly afterwards, as the youth development grew with over three hundred boys representing the club.

The club played matches at Campo Vinci and Campo Agnelli before moving to a new ground at C.so Lombardia. The new venue was inaugurated with a game against Serie A referees and was built by hard working volunteers of the club.

The club continued to progress with many youth sides while the first team advanced to fifth tier Eccellenza football for the 2006-07 season where they were placed in Girone A where the team initially stabilised their status.

Lucento had a narrow escape from relegation in 2008-09 prior to being moved to Girone B for the following season where they improved to fifth place in 2010-11 and then third twelve months later.

A succession of mid table finishes ensued before the team was relegated in 2014-15 to Girone D of Promozione. After missing out in the play-offs at the first attempt, Lucento made no mistake in 2016-17 when they defeated USD. San D. Savio Rocchetta T 5-2 on aggregate.

The club returned to Girone A of the Eccellenza, where after a season of consolidation the team was relegated in 2018-19. Lucento were top of Promozione Girone D when the 2019-20 season was abandoned owing to the outbreak of Coronavirus, leaving the club awaiting their fate.

ACD Lucento will play in Promozione Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta Girone D in the 2019-20 season.

My visit

Wednesday 3^rd February 2016

The early morning mist was still blocking out the sun on my day out in Turin. With a few hours to kill before the Juventus v Genoa clash, I was checking out a few local venues and doing some sightseeing.

I’d alighted at XVIII Dicembre on the metro after my visit to CBS Scuola Calcio. The number 29 bus arrived within a few minutes to take me into the city’s northern suburbs. My IPhone map app helped me follow the journey so that I knew where I was. Later in the evening I travelled on some of the same avenues to get to Juventus Stadium.

The bus travelled outside the ground, which was named Franco Riconda after the old president. I got off at Fermata and walked down corso Lombardia 107 to the entrance. There was no way I was going to risk entry as two wild looking barking dogs were through the gate!

Again I went down the side and managed to take some shots over the side fence using my height and standing on a wall along Via Val della Torre. The clubrooms were behind the far goal and on the far side there was some open wooden steps and then a smart seated stand.

Small ball courts made up the rest of the side. There was no spectator accommodation on the other three sides, and only the dug outs on the road side. Another full sizes pitch was behind the west goal. Both surfaces were artificial.

The number 29 took me back towards town where I alighted at the top of Corso Svizzera where I found a charming local food street market and even used a supermarket for pastries, which was an experience all of its own!